ARTICLES ABOUT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS BY DATE - PAGE 5

NEW DELHI: The Centre today took the first significant step towards creation of a separate Telangana state from out of Andhra Pradesh and decided that Hyderabad will be the joint capital of the two states for 10 years. Over two months after the Congress Working Committee put its seal of approval, the Union Cabinet approved the proposal of the Home Ministry for creation of the 29th state and decided to set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to work out modalities. "The Cabinet has given its approval for the creation of a new state of Telangana," Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters after the meeting that lasted more than two hours.

NEW DELHI: The Centre today told the Supreme Court that securing Aadhar cards, being issued by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), was optional and it has not made it mandatory for the citizens. The apex court, hearing a batch of pleas against decisions of some states to make Aadhar cards compulsory for a range of activities including salary, PF disbursals and marriage and property registrations, asked the Centre not to issue it to illegal immigrants as it would legitimise their stay.

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court today dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the central government to approach the International Court of Justice over the murder of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan jail. The division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala held that the issue was outside the High Court's jurisdiction. For such issues, the Central government should be approached, the court remarked. On May 2, Sarabjit Singh, who was on the death row, died of cardiac arrest at a Lahore hospital after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by some inmates of the high-security Lahore jail.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will tomorrow pass its verdict on a batch of petitions filed by the accused in the 2G spectrum case seeking recall of its two orders barring the high court from hearing the matters arising out of the scam. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and K S Radhakrishnan will deliver the judgement on petitions filed by accused Shahid Balwa, Vinod Goenka, Rajiv Agarwal, Asif Balwa and Ravinder Kumar Chandolia. It had reserved its verdict on August 21. The hearing in the matter was concluded with the CBI justifying the apex court's orders considering the magnitude of the probe in the case spreading from individual to corporate house and suicide by a person connected with the 2G scam . The agency opposed the plea of accused that the apex court's power to monitor the probe comes to an end with filing of charge sheets.

KOLKATA: Expressing displeasure over continuance of the bandh in Darjeeling despite its order, the Calcutta High Court today observed that the fundamental rights of people there were being curbed and asked why the GJM would not be asked to compensate damage to public and private property in the hills. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Joymalyo Bagchi directed GJM, which is demanding a separate Gorkhaland state, directed it to file an affidavit by September five stating why compensation costs would not be imposed on it. The division bench expressed displeasure over the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's violation of its order of August seven which had held the indefinite bandh in Darjeeling as illegal.

NEW DELHI: Reliance Telecom , which has challenged the 2G special court's decision to summon Anil Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani , has wrapped up its arguments in the apex court against an order restraining all other courts from interfering in the trial. The telecom service provider's lawyer Mukul Rohatgi said the Supreme Court order of April 11, 2011, violated the fundamental right of an individual to go to the high court for any grievance against an order of a lower court.

NEW DELHI: Reliance Telecom , which has challenged in the Supreme Court the 2G special court's decision to summon the company's chairman Anil Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani, has wrapped up its arguments in the apex court against an order restraining all other courts from interfering in the trial. The telecom service provider's lawyer Mukul Rohatgi said the Supreme Court order of April 11, 2011 violated the fundamental right of an individual to go to the high court for any grievance against an order of a lower court.

NEW DELHI: Government is likely to seek a review of the Supreme Court judgement scrapping the common entrance test for MBBS, BDS and post-graduate courses in medical and dental colleges with the Law Ministry endorsing a proposal in this regard. The Health Ministry, unhappy with the judgement, had proposed taking "legal and legislative recourse" to retain National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). The Law Ministry has backed the proposal of the Health Ministry saying it was in agreement that if the split judgement was not discussed among judges, it was a fit case to seek a review.

WASHINGTON: The US and Bangladesh have agreed to initiate talks on workers' rights and safety in the South Asian country, weeks after the collapse of a commercial building in Dhaka in April that killed 1,129 people in one of the world's worst industrial disasters. An agreement in this regard was reached following the meeting between Trade Representative Michael Froman and Bangladesh Ambassador to the US Akramul Qader. "No workers should have to sacrifice their safety or their basic rights in order to secure a livelihood for themselves and their families," Froman said after the meeting.